netbsd-users: Re: OT: apple’s marketing is just insolent
I’ll also have to admit I really like MacOS X! For the first time, Apple has made me seriously consider getting a Mac. It blends several things I really like in a Personal Computing Worstation: A GUI that’s easy enough for my 3 year old to run (or, more respectfully, most non-computer professionals I know [including my dear bride! ;^) ]), mainstream corporate applications like MS Office and Adobe, as well as several others including off-the-shelf support for my digital camera, a company behind it that has one of the longest histories as a major player in the computer industry (how many are left now < 5? IBM, Microsoft, Apple, ...), and yet this wonderful OS provides me the ability to tinker with stuff like with NetBSD - driver developement, OpenSource Apps, etc.)
My goal for some time has been to get down to one machine: it looks increasingly like an iBook would be the way to go. Dual-booting into OS X or NetBSD (FreeBSD is also working on a PPC port) with all the conventional apps and the Open Source world: it just works.